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He that is taken and put into prison or chains is not conquered, though overcome; for he is still an enemy.

—Thomas Hobbes

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The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

—Francis Bacon

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Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

—Francis Bacon

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Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

—Francis Bacon

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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

—Francis Bacon

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Hearing here, therefore, means any receiving of the word of God whether it be communicated to us by preaching, reading, or any other way.

—William Ames

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Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial.

—Susie Orbach

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There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

—Francis Bacon

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For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

—Francis Bacon

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The place of justice is a hallowed place.

—Francis Bacon

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All wealth is the product of labor.

—John Locke

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I put for the general inclination of all mankind, a perpetual and restless desire of power after power, that ceaseth only in death.

—Thomas Hobbes

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man’s self.

—Francis Bacon

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He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

—Francis Bacon

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The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

—Francis Bacon

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It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

—John Locke

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Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter.

—Thomas Hobbes

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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

—Francis Bacon

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The remedy is worse than the disease.

—Francis Bacon

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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

—Francis Bacon

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A little philosophy inclineth man’s mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men’s minds about to religion.

—Francis Bacon

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The counsel of God is, as it were, his deliberation over the best manner of accomplishing anything already approved by the understanding and the will.

—William Ames

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Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

—Roger Bacon

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

—Francis Bacon

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He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

—Francis Bacon

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Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

—Francis Bacon

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The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

—John Locke

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During the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that conditions called war; and such a war, as if of every man, against every man.

—Thomas Hobbes

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Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

—Francis Bacon

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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

—Francis Bacon

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Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

—Francis Bacon

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The discipline of desire is the background of character.

—John Locke

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be...

—Thomas Hobbes

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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

—Francis Bacon

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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

—Francis Bacon

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Science is but an image of the truth.

—Francis Bacon

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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

—Francis Bacon

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The worship which directs itself toward God as our good regards him either as he is ours at present, in faith, or as he is to be ours, in hope.

—William Ames

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All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one’s brain rejects it; for laymen and...

—Roger Bacon

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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

—Francis Bacon

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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

—Francis Bacon

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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

—Francis Bacon

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Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.

—John Locke

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No man’s error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

—Thomas Hobbes

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A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

—Francis Bacon

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The worst men often give the best advice.

—Francis Bacon

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Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

—Francis Bacon

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Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him.

—John Locke

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Words are the money of fools.

—Thomas Hobbes

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Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

—Francis Bacon

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